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  DOREEN BEAUPRE    masks@mymts.net com

 After graduation in 1983, I was hired by Frontier School Division and seconded to New Careers Program to do two training programs for their schools.  I worked in the Thompson Office of New Careers North in a Community Educators Program.  After a short period as an Art Teacher at Cranberry Collegiate I was seconded to coordinate two training programs for Core Area Initiatives.   After Core Area was discontinued, I worked as a Student Advisor at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon until my retirement two years ago. 

               My retirement time is spent doing volunteer work at Kateri Church for Leadership Training, as a pottery teacher at Villa Rosa and Grandmother to twenty-two grandchildren and one and a half great-grandchildren. My artwork is continuing and I present Medicine Wheel Art Workshops on demand. 

It is a full life thanks to the opportunities that the ACCESS program provided to me.  The move from north to south was a big adjustment for all the family, but my children went on to upgrading, achieving higher education in Social Work, Fine Arts, Engineering and Drafting and Human Ecology as well as aiming higher in career paths.  The ACCESS program encouraged all of us to continue our education.  Thanks to all the ACCESS staff for helping me on the way.

                                                      Folk Art  - The trickster element in me led to a hobby in creating miniature pig angels from play-doh, plastic clay for the entertainment of children.

                                                        Picasso - Gestural, therefore quick and lively

                                                        Pre-Columbian  - Sculptured figures, Mayan art, masks and figures.

                                                        Odjig      - versatile, gestural - use of symbols; aboriginal art world - use of culture.

                                                       Renaissance  - figures - power - beauty of form and movement.

ART WORKSHOPS

                                                            Exposure to David Thauberger - Joe Fafard

                                                          From workshops in Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan.

                                                        University of Manitoba education workshops.  Fine Arts film “ I don’t Have to Work that          

                                                           Big  Influence was the wit and characture-ish quality and fun.

LIFE EXPERIENCES

                  Drawing was the first medium at hand.

                  Cartooning - gesture - quick sketches

                  Limited art materials - paper and pencils; Limited art books- RC statuary - angels etc,

                  Egyptian and Renaissance stone figures. Limited available workshops - clay and painting.

CURRENT WORK

      Experimentations in using coil built structures, slab structures, excised decorations, natural textures of clay masks.  Inspired by 14^th century Mayan earthenware and Joe Fafard

   Emphasizing the complexity of and textural quality of clay and symbolic shape

 Taking the traditional methods of the Mayan into contemporary symbols and use of clay textures using: under-glazes to accent the coiled sinuous shapes of the clay-snake-like shapes incorporated to accent and exaggerate.  Snake projects leading to more coil use.

 Techniques used with masks and figures in the same manner, coiled and slabbed.  See Medusa and snake structures on masks. Texture accented by under-glaze and glaze added by spray on paints ( gold accents

   I want to explore more raku and paper-clay-large constructions following the theme of mask making.

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